Michael R. Coughlan
INVESTIGATOR, PostDoc, COLLABORATOR
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Calhoun Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oregon
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PhD, Anthropology, University of Georgia, 2013
MA, Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, 2003
BA, Anthropology, Middlebury College, 1996
Reconstruction of historical patterns of land use, tenure, and anthropogenic fire regimes; geodatabase development.
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CZO Publications
Papers/Books
2019
Geostatistical analysis of historical contingency and land use footprints in the prehistoric settlement dynamics of the South Carolina Piedmont, North America. Coughlan, Michael R., and Donald R. Nelson (2019): Journal of Archaeological Science 107: 1-9
2018
Influences of Native American land use on the Colonial Euro-American settlement of the South Carolina Piedmont. Coughlan, Michael R., and Donald R. Nelson (2018): PLoS ONE 13(3): e0195036
2017
Historical land use dynamics in the highly degraded landscape of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. Coughlan, Michael R., Donald R. Nelson, Michael Lonneman, and Ashley E. Block (2017): Land 6(2), 32
Papers and books that explicitly acknowledge a CZO grant are highlighted in PALE ORANGE.
Other CZO Publications
2019
What is soil? An integrative exploration of a Critical material. Nelson, Donald R, Michael R Coughlan, Amilcare M Porporato, Daniel deB. Richter (2019): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2019
2019
Land use trajectories: an empirical analysis of smallholders and the forest transition in the South Carolina Piedmont. Nelson, Donald, and Michael Coughlan (2019): Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March 19-23, 2019
2018
Gone with the witness tree: A reconstruction of historical forest cover change in the South Carolina Piedmont ca 1790-1940 using metes and bounds survey witness trees. Coughlan, M., D.R. Nelson, and M. Lonneman (2018): American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 10-14, 2018
2018
Anthropogenic drivers and the reconstruction of historical forest cover change in the South Carolina Piedmont ca 1790-1940. Nelson, D.R., M.R. Coughlan, and M. Lonneman (2018): American Geophysical Union 2018 Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 10-14 Dec 2018
2017
Historical landuse dynamics in the highly degraded landscape of the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory. Coughlan, Michael R., Donald R. Nelson, Michael Lonneman, and Ashley E. Block (2017): Calhoun CZO 2017 Summer Science Meeting, Union, SC, 17-18 May 2017
2017
Land use legacies in the Calhoun CZO: The implications of human behavior for Critical Zone processes. Nelson, Donald R., Daniel D. Richter Jr., Michael Coughlan, Michael Lonneman, Zachary Brecheisen (2017): Calhoun CZO 2017 Summer Science Meeting, Union, SC, 17-18 May 2017
2016
Historical land use and land use change in and around the Calzone. Coughlan, M. (2016): Calhoun CZO 2016 Summer Science Meeting, Clinton, SC
2016
Human niche construction and legacy effects at the Calhoun CZO: The relationship of land use legacies and historical settlement patterns. Coughlan, M., and D. R. Nelson (2016): Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Athens, GA
2016
Transitioning from livelihood fire to fire suppression in the US Southeast: Causes and consequences of fire regime transition in two forested landscapes. Coughlan, M., D. R. Nelson, and T. Gragson (2016): International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, San Antonio, TX
2015
Comparison of piedmont and mountain fire regimes during forest transition periods. Coughlan, M., and Nelson, D. (2015): Calhoun CZO 2015 Summer Science Meeting
2015
Transitioning from livelihood fire to fire suppression in the US Southeast: Causes and consequences of fire regime transition in two forested landscapes. Coughlan, M., D.R. Nelson, T. Gragson (2015): Fire Ecology and Management Congress, San Antonio, TX
2015
Multitemporal Human Forcings in the Calhoun CZO. Nelson, D., and Coughlan, M. (2015): Calhoun CZO 2015 Summer Science Meeting
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News
New paper on spatially explicit modeling of prehistoric land use footprints
07 May 2019 - Mike Coughlan and Don Nelson have a new paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science. Highlights include: Spatially explicit models of...
Calhoun CZO featured in Duke Magazine
14 Nov 2018 - How critical zone science unearths secrets: The new cross-disciplinary field of study concerns itself with the living skin of the Earth.
2018 Southeast Friends of the Pleistocene Field Conference
09 Feb 2018 - Geophysics, Geochemistry, and Biogeochemistry of the Southern Piedmont Critical Zone
USFS Photos from the Historic Archive of the Calhoun Experimental Forest
03 Oct 2016 - Just posted, thanks to efforts of Don Nelson, Kathy O'Neill, Mike Coughlan, Michael Lonneman, Zachary Meyers, and many other students, is an...
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